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  1. Mar 22, 2013 · March 22, 2013. “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” is a line penned by American poet, Robert Frost. Frost died in 1963, when he was 88 years old. But he wrote his epitaph more than two decades before that, in a poem titled “The Lesson for Today.”

  2. Mar 26, 2015 · The poem was originally read in 1941 by Frost to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard. It is one of Robert Frost’s lesser known works but includes the last line, now famous, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”, which is carved onto his gravestone.

  3. Jun 8, 2023 · “He mused, ‘If I should have an epitaph one day for my story, let it be I had a lover's quarrel with the world,'" Holland said. "He picked quarrels, of course, he was famously cantankerous.

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  5. Jan 24, 2012 · Movies. Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World. By The New Yorker. January 24, 2012. The poet was in his late eighties—and, as it turns out, the last years of his life (he...

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  6. 1963. ( 1963) Running time. 41 min. Country. United States. Language. English. Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World is a 1963 American documentary film directed by Shirley Clarke and starring Robert Frost.

  7. Clarke’s visual style rises to meet the colloquial power of Frost’s work with handheld intimacy and grace. Originally produced for WGBH, Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World won the Academy Award for best Feature Documentary. Paul Malcolm. WGBH-TV.

  8. No man seemed more natively American. "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit," said President Kennedy. But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old, with his life nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British.

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